I do not know if you are aware or not but there is a real nice simple
program called Walk-Thru by Autodesk that was for R14.
It is very simple to use and if it is still available the cost is relatively
inexpensive. It was about $100 a few years ago.
Also, if you upgrade to ADT 2.0 you can make walk-thru's in a few minutes.
Of course these are three D but I imagine you could stick raster images in
space in a correct plane for viewing and move the camera along stopping at
each raster image.
This was also very easy to do in AutoCAD R14 AEC Professional Suite 2.0.
This package came with a camera similar to what is now available in ADT.
I think your idea about the coming together of gaming and architecture is
very interesting. I do not know enough about either one to know if it is
reasonable or if there is some good reason it is not happening.
Anyway, Autodesk has made rendering much better and also 3dStudio Viz is
pretty good too.
Jack Talsky
"Phil Wilson"
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> Hi All!
>
> I've been looking for a way to create simple flat-shaded polyline based
> path animation with AutoCAD release 14 for quite some time now. In the
> past I've used a routine called '3dwalk.lsp' which will place x number
> of views along a polyline and create the views and even hide or shade
> and save slides. That worked fine, but
> unfortunately, my slides are much too big to pull that off. Originally,
> they were 1024x768 and over 5mb each. (yikes!) I lowered the resolution
> a few times and wasn't happy with any resolution below 800x600 which
> still made the slides 1.5mb each. Obviously, the recycle time using
> 'vslide' was just not quick enough to make that into a believable movie.
>
> I sure wish AutoDESK would address this issue for those of us (many, I
> think) who would just like to create a simple flat shaded
> polyline-based path animation.
>
> The final step way back (ions ago) in AutoDESK Animator worked fine, but
> only created a .fli at 320x200, the Walkthru product was hard to
> control, 3dstudio is too complex and autovision too quirky.
> Unfortunately for me, I purchased all of them looking for the simple
> features I've noted above. I'm not likely to buy another $500 product
> only to find that it won't do what I need.
>
> Hello, lisp programmers out there! Is the final step from 'view/shade'
> or 'slide' to .mov or .mpg or even .fli at more than 800x600 is the
> 'holy grail' or an unworkable task?
>
> Have any of you found shareware to do this? Help!
>
> Thanks for your time and assistance.
>
> Phil Wilson
>